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posted by zaina19 on April, 2005 as ANALYSIS / OPINION
Prev Discussion Next Discussion Send Replies to My Inbox Reply Recommend Message 1 of 1 in Discussion From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/13/2005 3:41 AM Basic Instincts There's precious little room for redemption in the world of 19th-century short prose, where one sin leads to another in a catalog of human vice and viciousness. By Oliver Ready Published: April 8, 2005 Since launching its first list in 2002, Hesperus Press has acquired an enviable name in British publishing for its adventurous editorial policy and the attention it lavishes on each of its graceful volumes. Specializing in short works by major writers of the past, mainly from Western Europe, Hesperus has also earned praise for the high standard of its translations. The publishers may require further encouragement in fulfilling their stated commitment to "bringing near what is far" (they still offer no examples of genuinely distant literary cultures, from Poland to Greece), but we can only be grateful for their sustained efforts in bringing closer at least ... >> full
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/18/2005 3:55 AM Monday, April 18, 2005. Smothered by State Care By Yevgenia Albats Whenever the Russian state announces that it is going to take care of me as a citizen, my heart skips a beat. I know what it means: My purse will be yet another several hundred dollars lighter, and dozens more hours of my time will be spent in line at the offices of bureaucrats. Let me tell you exactly how the state actually takes care of people. Say you have to register your inheritance, of which an apartment is the most important part. And say you have the simplest possible case under review: All the necessary paperwork was done beforehand, and there are no other claimants to the estate. You collect all the spravki, which will set you back $50 to $200 depending on how urgently you need the papers, and you arrive at the office of the state-appointed notary who is responsible for your district. Of course, you don't ... >> full
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Putin submits to Duma bill “On Government Service of Cossacks”
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/18/2005 8:45 AM
Putin submits to Duma bill “On Government Service of Cossacks”
13.04.2005, 11.03
MOSCOW, April 13 (Itar-Tass) - President Vladimir Putin has addressed a letter to Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov, notifying him that he had submitted for the consideration of the State Duma, in keeping with Paragraph “D” of Article 84 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, a draft federal law “On the Government Service of Russian Cossacks”, the Presidential Press Service reported on Wednesday.
http://itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=1929934&PageNum=0
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Prev Discussion Next Discussion Send Replies to My Inbox Reply Recommend Message 1 of 1 in Discussion From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/19/2005 12:59 PM 18.04.2005 Licensed to kill? In January 2002, Russian soldiers killed six innocent Chechen civilians. During their trial for murder, they said they were just following orders — and were acquitted by the jury. But now a retrial has been ordered which could result in members of the Russian government being tried for crimes against humanity. Dusk had begun to hang heavy over the remote Chechen village of Dai, when the radio crackled into life. «You have six 200s," the officer told Captain Eduard Ulman from Russia’s elite special forces. Ulman asked the officer to repeat himself, holding the receiver out for his colleagues to hear. «You have six 200s," the voice allegedly intoned. The phrase — military slang for «six corpses» — spelled death for the Chechen civilians cowering in the farmyard ditch below Ulman’s men. The unit had held them ... >> full
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Russia, EU Look Set To Clash Over Future Of OSCE
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/19/2005 1:05 PM 18.04.2005 Russia, EU Look Set To Clash Over Future Of OSCE The European Union today strongly contested recent Russian criticism of the OSCE’s role in the former Soviet Union. The OSCE is a participatory body that operates on the basis of consensus among all its members. To lose a major player such as Russia, which last year contributed about $10 million to the 55-nation group, would threaten the long-term future of the organization. Benita Ferrero-Waldner is the EU’s external affairs commissioner. Speaking in Luxembourg today, at the end of an EU foreign ministers meeting, she said the OSCE is in «crisis." «Indeed, we are having a bit of a crisis there. This is true. And therefore I think the OSCE is at a very important and challenging point in its history," Ferrero-Waldner said. «We have to see what we can do." One senior EU diplomat told RFE/RL that the EU’s foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, will in the coming days write to President ... >> full
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